Cucuteni

Cucuteni is a commune in Iasi County, Romania, with a populace of one,446 as of 2002. It is located 45 km from the city of Iasi and 10 km from the town of Târgu Frumos. Neighbouring villages and communes are Todiresti, Targu Frumos and Cotnari and Ruginoasa. The call of the village is derived from Romanian phrase "cucuta", this means that hemlock. The commune consists of 4 villages: Baiceni, Barbatesti, Cucuteni and Sacaresti. A trove of historical artifacts emerge as determined in Cucuteni in 1884.

It changed into determined that those artifacts have been produced via an ancient human beings whose existence and manner of existence had previously been unknown to modern pupils. Those students named the newly determined ancient tradition the Cucuteni lifestyle, after the call of the village wherein artifacts of that tradition had first been decided. In Cucuteni village there is an archeological museum displaying artifacts of the Cucuteni lifestyle, in addition to a church built within the 15th century throughout the rule of Stephen III of Moldavia .